Today, we’re capable of editing genetic material in plants, and growing entirely new kinds of food. But, more than that, we’re using these genetic editing techniques to better understand human disease.

After suffering a fall, a 90-something Chilean woman was admitted to a hospital where x-rays showed that she was carrying a calcified 4.4lb fetus. The phenomenon, lithopedion, occurs when a fetus dies and…

Gerald Pier, Harvard Medical School and David Skurnik, Harvard Medical School Antibiotics are wonderful drugs for treating bacterial infections. Unfortunately, disease-causing bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics that are meant to kill…

A medical team in South Africa has successfully performed a penis transplant. And, yes, it is fully function. The patient, a 21-year-old whose name is being withheld for ethical reasons, underwent the…

The organization, Prosalud Interamericana, worried that emergency contraception pills being sold in Peru were not, in fact, birth control pills at all. They investigated and what they found was disturbing: 1 out of 4 pills…